Amen. I completely wore out my dads professional Sony tape deck listening to recordings of the radio series as a kid. Soooo, many times. Shame that another H2G2 'founder' has gone.
No, the hack was 'ol school, not when it was done.;o) If it makes you feel any better, my dad and I were modding teletype machines to use as printers for our Interak 1 home built Z80 modular computer back in the 80's.
(I keep meaning to get round to ripping all the old code I wrote for my ZX Spectrum stored on a load of C15's so I can have an emulator powered trip down memory lane.)
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Reminds me of my housemate and I at university ('92-'95) using the tape control relay on an Acorn Electron wired to a PC serial port to rip the ROM so we could start writing an emulator. A small BASIC program PWM encoded the whole ROM in about an hour IIRC. Was a great start to the project, we got as far as CPU emulator, multi-window debugger, VGA display driver, and had it running basic no problems. He got it reading WAV's of games recorded from tape too. Got as far as the in-game screen of Chuckie Egg before we ran out of knowledge and became stuck trying to fathom the hardware keyboard input. (for the BASIC interpreter we just injected characters into the key buffer). Ahh, happy days.:o)
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Amen. I completely wore out my dads professional Sony tape deck listening to recordings of the radio series as a kid. Soooo, many times. Shame that another H2G2 'founder' has gone.
No, the hack was 'ol school, not when it was done. ;o) If it makes you feel any better, my dad and I were modding teletype machines to use as printers for our Interak 1 home built Z80 modular computer back in the 80's.
(I keep meaning to get round to ripping all the old code I wrote for my ZX Spectrum stored on a load of C15's so I can have an emulator powered trip down memory lane.)
Reminds me of my housemate and I at university ('92-'95) using the tape control relay on an Acorn Electron wired to a PC serial port to rip the ROM so we could start writing an emulator. A small BASIC program PWM encoded the whole ROM in about an hour IIRC. Was a great start to the project, we got as far as CPU emulator, multi-window debugger, VGA display driver, and had it running basic no problems. He got it reading WAV's of games recorded from tape too. Got as far as the in-game screen of Chuckie Egg before we ran out of knowledge and became stuck trying to fathom the hardware keyboard input. (for the BASIC interpreter we just injected characters into the key buffer). Ahh, happy days. :o)